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First maggie

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Posted by John Robinson on June 6, 2009 at 8:33 AM
First maggie
First one of these at this pool. Unbelievable - sat 6 foot in front of the hide and didn't bother at all ! Was under exposed by mistake, so it got the whites quite well.
Colin will like this one !!
D200
800 Iso
80th @ f8
Posted by Bertl Menegoni on June 6, 2009 at 1:32 PM
Fine job John,
very clever birds :eek:
:wavey: Bertl
Posted by Lewis Thomson on June 6, 2009 at 1:42 PM

Nice one John, these guys get a lot of unnecessary bad press I feel.

Lewis.
:toast:
Posted by John Robinson on June 6, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Thanks all. Yes , I suppose the do what they were designed to do. Natural selection weeds out the failures. :eek: :frown: Cheers
JohnR
Posted by Major Gilbert on June 6, 2009 at 4:17 PM
Lovely and sharp John with some great eye contact. :toast:

Major.
Posted by Maggie Campbell on June 6, 2009 at 4:18 PM
Hate the things personally but a nice shot. Wish you wouldn't call it Maggie though. :mad:
Posted by Andy Shepherd on June 6, 2009 at 6:03 PM


Very cool shot of a very difficult species, top stuff John :toast:

Andy...
Posted by John Robinson on June 6, 2009 at 7:34 PM
Thanks again.
Isn't it interesting how some species like redstarts get almost instant appraisal and yet abird like a magpie which no one seems to like, and yet which is a very hard to photograph because of its timidness and black and white colour pattern ,gets passed over.:confused:
Maggie - Please note- mine was spelt with a small "M" :wink:
Cheers
JohnR
Posted by Justin on June 7, 2009 at 9:02 AM
Good one John and well exposed.
Posted by Colin Preston on June 7, 2009 at 10:38 AM
Well caught John.
Posted by Maggie Campbell on June 8, 2009 at 5:08 PM
I'll let you off this time then. It is a nice shot and I agree they are hard to photograph. :wavey: